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Article #765Re: What are Simulator/Hardware accelerator
From: Chandresh Patel
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:28
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:28
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In article 331E8660@SATURN, mz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Zwolinski) writes: > In article <1993Jan18.013801.22802@netcom.com>, hage@netcom.com (Carl Hage) writes: > >patel@key.amdahl.com (Chandresh Patel) writes: > > [stuff deleted] > > > >There is now a third type of machine, such as produced by Quickturn and > >PiE Design Systems, which convert a netlist into a set of partitioned FPGA > >gate level circuits, then download the circuits into a set of Xilinx (or > >equivalent) FPGAs mounted on boards with programmable and observable > >interconnect. The FPGA circuit becomes a breadboard equivalent for > >the actual hardware, and might run only a few times slower than the actual > >hardware being simulated. > > Do you (or indeed, anyone else) have any information on these systems? If > so, please post or mail to me. Thanks > > > Dr Mark Zwolinski mz@ecs.soton.ac.uk > Department of Electronics and Computer Science Tel. (0703) 593528 > University of Southampton Fax. (0703) 593045 > Southampton SO9 5NH, UK The oldest in the business is: Quickturn Systems, Inc 325 East Middlefield Rd Moutain View, CA 94043 (415) 967 3199 lentini@qcktrn.com The other is: PiE Design Systems, Inc 757 N. Mary Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 738 8899 jcg@pie.com The third is (originally from UK?) InCA, Inc Integrated Circuit Applications Gibbs House, Kennel Ride Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7NT, UK +44 344 890575 In US their office is at: InCA, Inc. 51 East Campbell Ave Suite 110-E Campbell, CA 95008 (408) 986 8800 Enjoy, Chandresh Patel Amdahl Advanced Systems, Fremont CA patel@key.amdahl.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!key!patel From: patel@key.amdahl.com (Chandresh Patel) Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad Subject: Re: What are Simulator/Hardware accelerator Message-ID: <4025@key.COM> Date: 22 Jan 93 23:28:23 GMT References: <00966FE9.331E8660@SATURN> Sender: usenet@key.COM Reply-To: patel@key.amdahl.com Distribution: world Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced System Division Lines: 59